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Recent Examples of shipment
The stage departed from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday for shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
Last week, according to Argus, the last shipment of jet fuel to pass through the Strait of Hormuz arrived in Europe.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
This near-real-time pickup confirmation can inform customers when and where a package is in the supply chain, and is designed to be a step ahead of traditional shipment tracking, which sometimes lags behind a package’s current location.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2026
Investigators found the shipment unusual, given the company’s focus on science and technology products.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
Last week, according to Argus, the last shipment of jet fuel to pass through the Strait of Hormuz arrived in Europe.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
This near-real-time pickup confirmation can inform customers when and where a package is in the supply chain, and is designed to be a step ahead of traditional shipment tracking, which sometimes lags behind a package’s current location.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2026
Investigators found the shipment unusual, given the company’s focus on science and technology products.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipment
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The results of that flight and the outcome of Blue Origin’s first attempt to land on the Moon with its Blue Moon cargo lander in the coming months should tell us a lot about NASA’s actual chances of putting astronauts on the lunar surface in 2028.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2026
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The eight-pound statuette was bubble-wrapped and placed into a cardboard box destined for the cargo hold of the plane Talankin was booked on, Borenstein told the BBC.—
Corky Siemaszko,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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After booking affordable dental tourism packages, patients then fly to Turkey.—
K.H. Koehler,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Police said the package was shipped from China and was marked as containing an automotive filter.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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But the new traffic data the railroads analyzed from all the major freight railroads convinced executives that more job growth is likely.—
Josh Funk,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Delivered to Union Pacific in 1941, the locomotive was among 25 built to haul wartime freight across the Continental Divide in Wyoming and Utah.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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The port of Fujairah (the end-point of the UAE pipeline) also came under attack from Iranian drones, disrupting oil loading operations at its crude export terminal.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2026
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Use a front-loading washing machine or a top-loading washing machine without an agitator.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
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Managing the ins and outs of a family’s life is no small task, but fortunately, these mothers no longer have to manage this mental load on their own.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Engineers can simulate movements, loads, and environmental conditions before real deployment.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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Family Fun At Aamodt's Apple Farm on the southwest edge of Stillwater, kids love the seasonal goat farm, pedal tractors, hay wagon rides, and a hay bale maze.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
28 Apr. 2026
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Upon arrival, firefighters found that insulation bales stored outside of the building had caught fire, which then spread to the nearby structure.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Seed packets cost a couple of dollars.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Bring foil edges together to make a packet; crimp to seal tightly.—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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Cargill built a large soybean-lading facility at Santarem, some 500 miles up the Amazon.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
4 Jan. 2026
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One example can be as simple as shipments that are missing bills of lading or origin documents.—
Forbes,
Forbes,
1 June 2021
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“Shipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipment. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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